How does the facing function work? Im confused on whats being asked for input in the stock offset field. Let me set the scene, i had a piece of stock roughly 4.5 x 4.5 x .875 and wanted to bring it down to.750. I got all the tool parameters in, starting location ect. Im just expiermenting with it at this point hence the .250 tool. Could someone explain how to use this? Am i missing something obvious?
Thanks
I was wondering that myself. Are y’all going to put out some information about this, @langmuir-daniel @langmuirsystems ?
In your example here, you would end up taking a single 0.75” depth pass (from Z0, which is your top plane of the stock). Your final part thickness remaining would be 0.875 - 0.75 = 0.125”. The feature does not know how thick your stock is to start, only what the X/Y and Z zero points are.
I understand everything, except stock offset. Offset from what? Z?
Offset added to your X and Y stock dimensions. Essentially to run a conservative tool path to ensure the entire surface is covered by the operation.
Thanks, that’s what I wanted to know. I was worried it was a Z offset and didn’t want to crash.
Thank you for the info. Ill try it out next time im in the shop.
Anyone else notice that that the starting position (plunge vector) is 2xDiameter + offset instead of 1xDiameter + offset? Is this expected? This seems like a lot especially when using a fly cutter. @langmuir-daniel @langmuirsystems
private Vector3f plungeVectorInXYPlane() {
float plungeLength = this.toolDiameter * 2.0F + this.stockOffset;
return this.plungeVectorNormalized().mul(plungeLength, new Vector3f());
}
@langmuirsystems If this 2x plunge distance is expected, can you provide a field for this? Sometimes with the fly cutter, this is too far outside machine limits.
I also encountered this the first time I used the fly cutter. I was able to work around it by changing the direction from X to Y to stay within the allowable travels. I haven’t hit it since as I decided to always use f360 cam for the flycutter after the first experience.
Where is this source code ?
Everything is written in Java. Google Java decompilers or DM me for more info.